Zuhriyaa bin Hamna

Zuhriyaa bin Hamna (15 November 1965-15 August 2008) was a member of al-Qaeda from Malaysia.

Biography
Zuhriyaa bin Hamna was born on 15 November 1965 in Cukai, Malaysia to a Sunni Muslim family. Hamna became a radical Islamist due to the teachings of local clerics, and he headed to Afghanistan in 1986 when he turned 21. Hamna met with fellow militants Abu Daoud al-Saudi and Ahmed Saif al-Afghani in Pakistan that year, and they headed to Afghanistan in October. The three of them fought alongside the Mujahideen against the Soviet Army during the Soviet-Afghan War, and Hamna remained in Afghanistan after the end of the war in 1988, continuing to fight against the communist government until 1992. After this, he traveled to Bosnia, where the Yugoslav Army of Serbia massacred Muslim Bosniaks. Hamna joined the Bosnian Mujahideen and resisted the Serbs, and he gained experience. Later, he returned to Afghanistan and was trained by al-Qaeda. In 2001, he was trained for a possible mission to attack a passenger bus in Malaysia's capital of Kuala Lumpur, but Malaysia revoked his citizenship. He was forced to seek shelter in the terrorist paradise of northwest Pakistan, where he lived among the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants in Swat Valley. In 2008, he was killed in a drone strike by the United States.